Classic French Noir
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-971-9 (ISBN)
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national context that drive gendered behaviour on screen.
During this period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males, rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of an array of male and female character-types: moving past the celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to create an illuminating study of the cut-throat world of noir.
Deborah Walker-Morrison is Associate Professor of French at the University of Auckland. She has published widely on French cinema and is co-author (with Alistair Rolls) of French and American Noir: Dark Crossings (2009).
Part I Setting the Scene
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Fatal(e) Desire in French Poetic Realism
Part II The Long Shadow of War
Chapter 3 War: Looking for the Light
Chapter 4 Too Many Women? War and Fatal(e) Desire
Part III Cherchez La Femme
Chapter 5 Fatal(e) Passions: Star Crossed Lovers & Tragic Fatalitaires
Chapter 6 `Thou Shalt Not Covet': Adulterous Fatalitaires
Chapter 7 Bad Girls
Part IV Cherchez L'Homme
Chapter 8 Fatal Men
Chapter 9 Law Enforcers Meet the Femme
Chapter 10: Gender & Consumption in Gangster Noir
Part V Conclusions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | International Library of the Moving Image ; 57 |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 black and white integrated illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78453-971-6 / 1784539716 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78453-971-9 / 9781784539719 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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